[Biblia Latina : cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgensis replicisque Matthiae Doering]
[Biblia Latina : cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgensis replicisque Matthiae Doering]
Imprint from colophon on leaf ✠11 recto, which reads in full: Venetijs opere & sumptibus Octauiani Scoti Modoetie[n]sis .M. CCCC. LXXXIX. Sexto Jd[us] sextilis
Royal folio; printed in double columns, vol I, a4 recto: 74 lines of commentary surrounding the text, with headline, 280 (287) x 186 mm; types: 130G, 92G, 74G; initial spaces with guide letters.
Woodcut Scotus/Locatellus device C in red on leaf ✠12 recto in vol. 4. For Scotus/Locatellus device C, see BM 15th cent., V, 436.
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 437
COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.2 FOLIO imperfect: vol. 2 only. Leaves 2y5, 2y6, and 3c12 wanting. Leaf dimensions: 362 x 247 mm.
PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.2 FOLIO with bookplates of Theodore Parker and of the Library of Peterborough Cathedral. Early marginalia throughout. Acquired via the Parker bequest in 1861.
BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.2 FOLIO bound in early/contemporary calf paneled and tooled in blind and rebacked in modern brown morocco. Spine unlabeled. Single early clasp and both catches. Medieval manuscript waste pastedowns.
Notes
No title page found. No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.
Due to tight binding and inner margins, some text near the inner margin may be blurry.
